Jarvan IV vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Jarvan IV
based on 1,892 Jarvan IV vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jarvan IV vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Jarvan IV vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Darius as Jarvan IV
Tips for Playing as Jarvan IV against Darius
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
Advice to Win Against Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Jarvan IV vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Jarvan IV in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several influential Jarvan IV against Darius counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between the two. Jarvan IV’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Darius’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Jarvan IV may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Darius. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Jarvan IV normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Darius. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Jarvan IV and Darius
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Who is Better, Jarvan IV or Darius?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jarvan IV usually fairs equally well when playing against Darius, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Jarvan IV makes an ok counter to Darius.
While Jarvan IV does have a higher winrate than Darius, when they face off with one another, Jarvan IV also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Jarvan IV into Darius.
Moreover, Jarvan IV has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Darius. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jarvan IV vs Darius matchups, Jarvan IV is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Jarvan IV is a decent counter to Darius. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Jarvan IV against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Jarvan IV to counter Darius during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jarvan IV often gets a lot less CS relative to Darius. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Jarvan IV versus Darius build include Experimental Hexplate, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Darius than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Jarvan IV had an average winrate of 50.7% when countering Darius with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Darius as Jarvan IV, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Jarvan IV vs Darius counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
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